The Best Opportunity for Microsoft Shareholders in Years

Satya Nadella looks poised to ramp up cloud computing, which could drive Microsoft shares, up 47% in the last year, even higher.

Microsoft's quixotic journey from dog to darling took another curious turn last week as reports floated around that the company will make its Office productivity suite available on Apple's iPad at a media event it is hosting this week.

The Street has been waiting to exhale over this announcement for years, and in fact the apparent unwillingness of the company to ship product on Apple's (ticker: AAPL) tablet was one of many bones...